Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:03:22 -0500 From: George Vagner <vagner@kf7nn.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, junkmale@xtra.co.nz, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel with > 2 IDE devices Message-ID: <35E81839.52BC3A2A@vagner.com> References: <199808280712.TAA10400@witch.xtra.co.nz> <19980829190130.J17530@freebie.lemis.com>
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apparently you have an older 486 machine possibly with a promise ide vesa local bus card installed. i would try putting both the hard drives on the VLB port since its faster, set one to slave the other to master and put the cd-rom on the IDE port and set it as slave. i have this setup here and it works fine. Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 28 August 1998 at 19:12:51 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > I have three IDE devices: 300 Mb disk, 5 Gb disk, CD-ROM. I have an IDE > > card with two IDE connectors (one marked VLB, the other ISA). > > Huh? That doesn't sound much like disk connectors. > > > I'm trying to figure out what settings I should have in my kernel. > > Do I have two controllers with devices on each? Or one controller > > with all the devices under that? > > I suppose that's the question we should ask you. Typically, modern > motherboards have two on-board controllers, each of which will handle > a master and possibly also a slave. > > > I have the system working with the 5G disk and cd-rom. I'm trying to add > > the 330 mb disk. Why? Because it's there. <grin> > > > > I'd tried adding wdc1 but the system wouldn't boot. Then I tried adding > > wd1 under wcd0. That gave me two images of my 5Gb disk. > > Fascinating. > > > (for a rough idea of what I actually did, see the bottom of the > > webpage: > > > > http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd/upgrade227.htm > > Ah. You state "My IDE card will handle four devices". This can't be > on one controller (see above). If you have two controllers, they'll > be called wdc0 and wdc1. By default, the system will allocate IDs > dynamically during probing; this is probably the best place to see > what's going on. Could you excerpt the relevant parts of the output > of dmesg, please? > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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